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Ride-sharing service Uber has reached an agreement to acquire San Jose-based mapping startup deCarta. The deal, which includes the company’s technology and talent, is expected to close later this week for an undisclosed sum according to a report from Mashable.
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Vessel, the video-sharing startup founded by former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar, is now open for business. Billed by some as the first real threat to YouTube, the site (not to be confused with the similarly-named smart cup) features professionally-produced videos…

Microsoft has confirmed its acquisition of mobile e-mail startup Acompli after accidentally letting it slip a week early. Neither party listed the value of the deal although some have heard Microsoft is paying more than $200 million for the startup.

Six-month-old on-demand shipping startup Shyp is expanding. After ebranching out from its home base of San Francisco to New York City this week, the budding company announced plans to expand south to Miami in time for the holidays.

IBM has agreed to purchase Australian-based virtual assistant software startup Cognea. The company plans to take the software’s capabilities which are currently used to create virtual assistants for enterprise customers and implement it into the Watson cognitive computing platform.
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AOL has purchased personalization startup Gravity for $83 million in cash. The deal also includes roughly $12 million of net operating losses which officials will later use as a future tax benefit to the tune of around $5 million according…

Intel has quietly scooped up natural language recognition firm Indisys just two months after purchasing gesture-based specialist Omek. It wasn’t revealed how much Intel paid for the 10-year-old Spanish start-up but reports peg the value at just north of €20…

When Apple banished Google Maps from its latest iteration of iOS, there was plenty of optimism surrounding their home-grown mapping software. Unfortunately, Apple Maps was plagued by improper information and poor labeling, often guiding users to unmarked locations. In one…

Currently in beta, Ravaged is the brainchild of Boris Ustaev and his crew at 2Dawn Games, who have spent the last few years toiling away on a fast-paced post-apocalyptic multiplayer shooter with a strong focus on skills, teamwork, vehicular combat and most importantly, fun. In other words, it's everything the folks at 2Dawn have wanted in a modern PC shooter, but have been unable to find.

We recently had a chance to chat with 2Dawn about its upcoming title, its experience with Kickstarter and what it's like developing a PC game as an independent studio.

A small startup known as Limited Run has publically decided to withdraw their presence from Facebook over concerns about the social network’s advertising practices. According to Limited Run, only 20 percent of ad clicks actually come from real people; the…